Absolutism
The system in which a ruler holds absolute power over church and state
What is absolutism?
The French absolute monarch who was a patron of the arts
The Russian absolute monarch that centralized Russia's government
What is Peter the Great?
The Enlightenment thinker that believed in separation of powers
What is Montesquieu?
The reason for the establishment of Absolute monarchs
What is territorial and religious conflicts?
What is Palace of Versailles?
What is Westernization?
The three natural rights found in the Declaration of Independence
What is life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness (property)?
The European-version of the God-given right to rule
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
The reason for the construction of the Palace of Versailles
What is showing immense power and wealth of the Monarch?
The architectural project of Peter the Great that showed immense power and wealth
What is St. Petersburg?
The geographic areas that experienced the Enlightenment
What is Europe and the American colonies?
The Chinese equivalent of the Divine Right of Kings
The reasons for the decline of Louis XIV's reign
What is waging wars and building the Palace of Versailles?
What is warm-water seaport?
The United States Amendment that shares the Enlightenment ideas of Voltaire
What is First Amendment?
An absolute monarch that embraced Enlightenment ideas
What is Enlightened despot?
The responsibilities of French nobles in Louis XIV's government
What is nothing?
An example of Russian westernization (culturally)
What is imitating Western dress?
What is French Revolution?